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Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Buster Keaton
Features
Satirizing and Saluting: Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie” At 50
Interviews
Humor Is a Weapon: A Conversation with John Waters
Festivals & Awards
This Year’s Ebert Fellows Reflect on the 2026 True/False Film Festival
Ebertfest
“Get Out” Star Betty Gabriel and “Nuremberg” Director James Vanderbilt to Attend Ebertfest 2026
Festivals & Awards
Full Schedule for Ebertfest 2026 Released and Individual Tickets Now On Sale
Ebertfest
Ebertfest Announces Expanded Lineup, Special Guests, and Final Festival Programming for “The Last Dance” Edition
Women Writers Week
To the Film Industry in Crisis, A Look Back At Hollywood In 1926
Features
The Great Craft of 2025
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2024: All Hail the Screwball Queen by Olympia Kiriakou
Features
Silents Synced Pairs Silent Classics with ’90s Alt-Rock (It’s a Gen-X Thing)
Features
Girl Shy and the Birth of the Romantic Comedy
Festivals & Awards
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Highlights Unearthed Treasures of Film History
Festivals & Awards
Introducing Ebertfest 25’s Film Critics and Scholars
Features
A (Not So) Brief History of Silent Film Influences on Pop Music
Interviews
Artists We Spoke to in 2023: Some of Our Favorite Interviews
TV/Streaming
Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar is Essential For Fans of the Legendary Star
Interviews
Empathy Comes With Maturity: Ira Sachs on Passages
Interviews
The Whole Gag is Excess: Chad Stahelski on John Wick: Chapter 4
Festivals & Awards
Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023
Interviews
Something Comes Out of Me That Has a Fatherly Quality: Paul Dooley on His New Book Movie Dad
Features
Book Excerpt: When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Interviews
How History Moves Through a Life: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton
Features
Camera Man: Dana Stevens on the Life and Times of Buster Keaton
Tributes
The Connection to Old Hollywood: Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022)
Chaz's Journal
Alloy Orchestra Changes to The Anvil Orchestra, a Name Coined by Roger Ebert
Interviews
A Lucky Film Buff: Leonard Maltin Reflects on His Life
Tributes
Monte Hellman: 1932-2021
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room February 2021: Who Could Ask for Anything More?: Watching Gene Kelly From a Child’s-Eye View by Ethan Warren
Interviews
Visions of Friendship: Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin on The Climb
Features
The Individual Top Tens of 2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: June 25, 2020
Features
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Features
Music Box Memories: A Legendary Theatre Celebrates 90 Years
Festivals & Awards
A Rich and Varied World: Highlights of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
MZS
30 Minutes On: “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Interviews
They Are the Wellspring For Me: John C. Reilly on Stan & Ollie
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2018: Friedkin Uncut, The Great Buster
MZS
Always Leave ‘Em Laughing: Peter Bogdanovich on Buster Keaton, superheroes, television, and the effect of time on movies
Festivals & Awards
45 Movies to see at the 54th Chicago International Film Festival
Features
Neil Simon: 1927-2018
Interviews
Leonard Maltin on His New Book, Hooked on Hollywood: Discoveries from a Lifetime of Film Fandom
Features
RogerEbert.com and the Mission: Impossible Movies
Interviews
Interview: Chicago Filmmaker Michael Glover Smith on Mercury in Retrograde
Festivals & Awards
AFI Fest 2017: “The Shape of Water” Panel with Guillermo del Toro, Sally Hawkins and more
Features
Jerry Lewis: 1926-2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest Flashback: Donald O’Connor on “Singin’ in the Rain”
MZS
60 Minutes on: “John Wick: Chapter Two”
Features
Meet the Writers: Monica Castillo
Features
Comedy Is Not Pretty: The Parade Of Not-Necessarily-Likable Genius In Kliph Nesteroff’s “The Comedians”
Features
Meet the Writers: Nick Allen
Features
Book Excerpt: “The Gag Man” by Matthew Dessem
Features
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Features
Keep Moving!: The Films of Richard Lester.
Features
A Trip Through Film History with Norman Lloyd
Features
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Chaz's Journal
A Tribute to Prashant Bhargava
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room May 2015: Indoor Kids by Anna Sjogren
MZS
Richard Corliss, 1944-2015: Everywhere at Once
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2015: Car Chase Ends in Bay Swim, Police Say Screwballs Involved by Kara VanderBijl
Festivals & Awards
A More Balanced Audience: The 2015 TCM Film Festival
MZS
The Unloved, Part 15: The Lone Ranger & Heaven’s Gate
MZS
The ten thousand rule: Timothy Patrick Monyihan, aka Gus Murphy, aka M, aka Mendl, 1956-2015
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2015: “Mistress America,” “Z For Zachariah,” “The Forbidden Room”
Roger Ebert
Beyond Narrative: The Future of the Feature Film
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2014
Features
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Far Flungers
Theater with a Capital “T”
Features
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” Gets the Deluxe Treatment from Criterion
Features
Cohen Media Group Brings Classic and Vintage FIlms to a 21st Century Audience
MZS
Matt Zoller Seitz’s Top 10 Films of 2013
Interviews
Oscar Isaac Takes the Lead with the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Features
The film portion of Orson Welles’s “Too Much Johnson” premieres in New York
Features
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Chaz's Journal
